From Home and Abroad : American and British Writers in Philadelphia 1800-1910 Hardback
by John J. Burke
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This book is a detailed account of the visits of twenty-one famous writers-four British and seventeen American-who visited Philadelphia.
Burke focuses on the literary history of Philadelphia.
Contents: Preface; Passing Through; Thomas Moore; Washington Irving; Ralph Waldo Emerson; (Amos) Bronson Alcott; James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; John Greenleaf Whittier; Charles Dickens; James Russell Lowell; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Makepeace Thackeray; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); Henry David Thoreau; Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman; William Dean Howells; Oscar Wilde; Edith Wharton; Theodore Dreiser; William Carlos Williams; Henry James.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:108 pages
- Publisher:University Press of America
- Publication Date:28/05/1995
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- ISBN:9780819195913
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:108 pages
- Publisher:University Press of America
- Publication Date:28/05/1995
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- ISBN:9780819195913